Having been here, as I know many have, for over a decade, the drop in comments has been the one thing that has made me think about migrating elsewhere. I’m in the UK, and the article content isn’t always relevant to me, but I always want to jump to the comments. My first baby is due at the start of October, so I think…

The old commenting system was 100% self-moderating and troll-proof, but Denton didn’t realize what he had.  Instead we got Kinja.  Hurray.

This. Not exactly shade at the writers, but... There are some writers here that I really like and respect, and even they have been publishing stories lately that are ... not great. I’m guessing it’s got to do with quotas, word counts, etc. Formerly though, even if the story was a mess, I’d read the comments.

Anybody know of a similar group of blogs with a decent commenting system?  I’ve been looking around, but no dice so far.

Have definitely seen drop-off in comments in the past few months. By the time I get to catch up on Jez during my late lunch and evening breaks from work, there’d be 30-100+ comments on any article. Now there are many (most?) articles with single-digit or nil comments. And hell trying to keep up with rapid-fire…

MBB seems to be a prime target for male groomers (also see Drake.)

I just came in here to complain about this!!! Also I noticed they no longer show the number of comments on an article. I’m guessing it’s a “trap” since the articles themselves are mostly crap and now you have to click through to see if there’s any discussion whatsoever. I think it’ll backfire though, personally I’d be…

I’m working on the assumption that is a feature, not a bug, and is meant to exaggerate what Analytics now seems to prize, which is “user engagements”, as “Google charts are course towards a more privacy-first web”. If you can’t ID the computer, at least you can guesstimate time on site by how many times a user met the…

Kinja has never been great but at least it was serviceable. Now it’s a near- complete dumpster fire. Having a lively comments section is a big part of this site. How can anyone help but think if they’re willing to let that wither away, the whole site is winding down?

Sites are moving away from comments IMO because commenters use it as a platform to call out the author for any number of reasons. Accountability is going by the wayside.

Yep. I’ve given up on trying to reply to people who’ve replied to a comment I’ve made. I don’t have the time to scroll through all those comments just to try and find the one. Even then, I’ve found that the reply just isn’t there. I have to imagine they measure comments/replies/replies to replies as equalling some…

Unrelated but they’ve made kinja even more of a mess (still think the aim is to slowly move towards no comments entirely).

Totally agree. She could have made it funny and it would have been fine. For example,  she could have pointed out that the dance is just about the most simple Tik Tok dance I’ve seen yet and she still couldn’t do it.

Yeah, it’s almost like people overreact regularly on social media or something ;-).

Just so we are all clear, it’s not okay to make fun of stupid shit just because black people made it up? Between this and the backlash against 50 cent for saying Lil Kim dressed up like an owl looked like an owl it’s no wonder the country is so divided. People seem to flip their shit over not micro, not nano, not…

Huh. The amazing part is Biebs only spent $1K in 20 minutes in a weed store. If I had Bieber money, I have my own farm.

I’m glad other people said something because I had to stop reading after that, 1-2 times a day is not much and shaming people for a healthy human function is gross.

rubbing one out in the showers and clogging the drains

The entire idea around it in this season has been: “Did we say the word? Yes I’m positive we did.”

Seriously. Five to ten a day during puberty FFS......Allegedly.....